by admin | Apr 26, 2021 | Textorium
Matters of Consequence Sullivan, Mary The bag lady crossing the parking lot is an elementary school teacher making her way to work. The Safeway logo stretches over a bulge of grade 4 journals in one bag. String and coat hangers, sweatsuit and runners poke from...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Temporal Reflection
Temporal Reflection Lived time (temporality) is subjective time as opposed to clock time or objective time. Lived time is the time that appears to speed up when we enjoy ourselves, or slow down when we feel bored during an uninteresting lecture or when we are sit...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Convocative Turn
The convocative turn: appeal Appeal: The phenomenological text can possess revealing power – with its life meaning makeing a transformative appeal to the reader. A qualitative text can suddenly open up to a fundamental insight that cannot be reduced to a conceptual...
by admin | Sep 7, 2023 | Evocative Turn
The Evocative Turn Nearness: Give key words their full value (through metaphor and poetic devices such as repetition, alliteration) so that layers of meaning get strongly embedded in the text. The term “evoke” derives from evocare, to call forth, to call out, and...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Invocative Turn
The Invocative Turn Intensification: The intensification of a text’s language implies that its meaning becomes more universal, more general. The meaning of words and phrases is universalized. When concrete things are named in text in which words are intensified, a...
